The Metropolitan Tower

A Pedagogical Research Initiated by Michel Kagan

Nathalie Régnier-Kagan

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Park Books
22 May 2025

Architectural structure & design; City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture

The Metropolitan Tower is the first English-language edition of an influential French standard reference on the topic of the urban high-rise, originally published in 2012. It summarises, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (19532009). Featuring some 600 photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan's own writings and contributions by 26 distinguished international authors who respond to his ideas with key elements of their own research, the volume comprehensively explores the typology of the metropolitan high-rise since the birth of early modernism.

In contrast with the individual expressionism of a single building, Kagan proposes an architecture of relationships that considers above all the context: Place is the most important material for urban planning, without which the city does not exist.

For this new English edition, the book's content has been revised, updated, and expanded in the light of new research conducted by faculty of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture (ENSA) Paris-Val de Seine under the direction of Nathalie Régnier-Kagan. It offers a fascinating and multilayered panorama informing students, architects and critics alike on the topic of vertical architecture.

AUTHOR: Nathalie Régnier-Kagan is an architect and professor at the ENSA Paris-Val de Seine. She has worked with Richard Meier & Partners in New York, among others, before joining Kagan Architectures in Paris in 1992, directing the firm on her own since the death of her husband Michel Kagan in 2009.

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A standard reference on the typology of the urban high-rise, now available in English for the first time in a revised, updated, and expanded edition .

Summarises, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (19532009) .

Texts and original research by 26 distinguished international authors respond to Michel Kagan's ideas

345 colour, 280 b/w illustrations

Edited by: Nathalie Régnier-Kagan
Imprint: Park Books
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9783038604266
ISBN 10: 3038604267
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 22 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Nathalie Régnier-Kagan is an architect and professor at the ENSA Paris-Val de Seine. She has worked with Richard Meier & Partners in New York, among others, before joining Kagan Architectures in Paris in 1992, directing the firm on her own since the death of her husband Michel Kagan in 2009.